"Women born Women" used to be used in the Women's Movement in Australia while ago and may still be used for all I know. It was coined to try and exclude M2F trangendered people from women only events. At least (unlike cisgender) it says what it means, and one could also use the term "Man born Man" but it is a bit of a mouthful.
Cisgender is a made up word as far as I know and whoever made it up should've come up with something which says what it means rather than being so vague as to be meaningless. What on earth does "cis" mean anyway? Anyone know its derivation?
I would never describe myself as cisgender, although others might given I'm a woman and was born that way, and I wouldn't use the term about anyone else either. Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but to me a woman is a woman, a man is a man and a transgender person is a transgender person. That's enough categories for me to deal with.
Cisgender has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis-, meaning "on this side of", which means the opposite of trans-, meaning "across from" or "on the other side of". This usage can be seen in the cis–trans distinction in chemistry, the cis–trans or complementation test in genetics [...] source: Wikipedia
I hate being labeled 'cisgender'
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"Women born Women" used to be used in the Women's Movement in Australia while ago and may still be used for all I know. It was coined to try and exclude M2F trangendered people from women only events. At least (unlike cisgender) it says what it means, and one could also use the term "Man born Man" but it is a bit of a mouthful.
Cisgender is a made up word as far as I know and whoever made it up should've come up with something which says what it means rather than being so vague as to be meaningless. What on earth does "cis" mean anyway? Anyone know its derivation?
I would never describe myself as cisgender, although others might given I'm a woman and was born that way, and I wouldn't use the term about anyone else either. Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but to me a woman is a woman, a man is a man and a transgender person is a transgender person. That's enough categories for me to deal with.
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Cisgender has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis-, meaning "on this side of", which means the opposite of trans-, meaning "across from" or "on the other side of". This usage can be seen in the cis–trans distinction in chemistry, the cis–trans or complementation test in genetics [...] source: Wikipedia